“Listen In” is a weekly feature in which we ask musicians to curate a mixtape-length YouTube playlist of songs they’re currently digging. After over a decade’s worth of music that ran the full spectrum of bad vibes–from “twitchy anxiety” to “slowly creeping dread”– Liars’ sixth album is at once their most welcoming and the largest step […]
Russian artist “Petro Wadkins” has replaced the Mannekin Pis, one of the most beloved and fawned over sculptures in Belgium, for some reason, with a large golden statue of himself. The original bronze is a depiction of a small boy peeing into the fountains basin and was installed sometime during the 15th century. It is seen mostly […]
Google image search “Atari Breakout” right now. Just do it. I won’t spoil the fun for you by telling you what’s going to happen. […]
Reddit is huge, almost unfathomably so. To a lurker like myself, it can be difficult to understand the inner workings and connections beyond a few big subreddits, like AdviceAnimals, IAmA, and, uh, NSFW Science. Thanksfully, redditor sharkbait784 created this interactive data visualization, which maps the connections between subs based on the number of times each sub […]
Next time you hit up one of New York’s newsstands, take a moment to look at the prices of the goods spread out before you. Besides the stand’s raisons d’être–newspapers and magazines–as well as MetroCards, phone cards, and cigarettes, you’ll notice that all of the prices top off conspicuously at $5. That’s because of legislation […]
T-Mack, Port Authority. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
As part of their “Big Brush Project” in Williamsburg, outdoor advertising company Colossal Media recreated artwork by Greg Lamarche aka SP ONE. (Photo: Colossal Media/Flickr) […]
As the great scholar Rick James once said, cocaine is a hell of a drug. Alas, it’s also very expensive, is responsible for more annual U.S. emergency room visits than any other drug, and turns users into selfish, paranoid, sexually impotent jerks. Er, so we hear. And yet, according to the National Survey on Drug Use […]
This hot new Facebook “game” might be your last. With Social Roulette, you have 1 in 6 chance of getting your Facebook account deleted. The collaborative “game” by Kyle McDonald (shout out F.A.T. lab!), Jonas Lund (shout out Eyebeam!) and Jonas Jongejan functions like the traditional Russian Roulette would, without the gun. If your “chamber” is loaded, you will lose your precious […]
In Sonic Water — an interactive installation from media artists Sven Meyer and Kim Pörksen — audible frequencies are translated into striking kinetic imagery. Small vats of water act as 3D liquid sculptures. Visitors can create different sound effects by adding fluids into the mix. These user-modulated noises are then transformed into ever-changing visual patterns, recorded by a camera and projected. The video […]
